How do you honour your Ancestors without cultural appropriation?

If so, whose lineage was your drum maker trained in and are the animal skins indigenous to your ancestral lands?

Do you chant a mantra?

If so, is your mantra Hindi, Sikh or Buddhist, do you honour their traditions? Or does your chant come from your ancestral lands, if so what Tribe and culture?

Do you take drugs in shamanic ritual?

If so who is your teacher’s teacher? What lineage do you honour when you call your shaman’s name?

Or do you sing the song of your ancestral lullaby, the song sung by mother to daughter to mother to child? Do you honour the soil, or hunger to know the lands of your ancestressal stories? Have you heard your Motherland’s call and can speak of your pilgrimage back to your tribal home?

Do you use your bleed time to call in your Ancestressal dreaming, have you honoured your Spirit mother, the first of your Motherline? Or do you reverently call your fore-mothers by their names as far back as you have re-membered?

About

Lhamo

Lhamo is an Interfaith Reverend ordained in the Interfaith Temple in New York. A mother of two wonderfully free willed children, a loving step mother to two young adults and wife to her Beloved Peter. Full of love, warmth, character and womanly abundance, Lhamo supports women called to carry out the real work of the Sacred Feminine, during the most demanding, transformative years of their lives.